Vocabulary Workshop Unit 9

novice

• making an extravagant show; ostentatious

• tending to delay; marked by procrastination

• one who is just a beginner at some activity requiring skill and experience

• an object of intense dislike; a curse or strong denunciation

adulation

• cloudlike, resembling a cloud; cloudy in color, not transparent; vague, confused, indistinct

• praise or flattery that is excessive

• tending to delay; marked by procrastination

• deseving blame, worthy of condemnation

anathema

• to make less, to deduct, to reduce in quantity, value, force or intensity

• unable to make up one's mind

• praise or flattery that is excessive

• an object of intense dislike; a curse or strong denunciation

dilatory

• tending to delay; marked by procrastination

• something that is assumed or taken for granted without conclusive evidence

• deseving blame, worthy of condemnation

• untidy, as in dress or appearance

avarice

• to summarize by making a list of points

• to make less, to deduct, to reduce in quantity, value, force or intensity

• a greedy desire, particularly for wealth

• lethargic, dormant, lacking emotion

resuscitate

• to summarize by making a list of points

• lethargic, dormant, lacking emotion

• very alert and aware; clever

• to revive from unconsciousness or apparent death

astute

• very alert and aware; clever

• vanishing, soon passing away; light and airy

• one who is just a beginner at some activity requiring skill and experience

• extreme poverty, barrenness, insufficiency

pretentious

• unable to make up one's mind

• making an extravagant show; ostentatious

• conspicuous, standing out from the mass (used particularly in an unfavorable sense)

• something that is assumed or taken for granted without conclusive evidence

supposition

• deseving blame, worthy of condemnation

• something that is assumed or taken for granted without conclusive evidence

• one who is just a beginner at some activity requiring skill and experience

• praise or flattery that is excessive

culpable

• a greedy desire, particularly for wealth

• to speak ambiguously in order to mislead or deceive

• tending to delay; marked by procrastination

• deseving blame, worthy of condemnation